March 11

IB 30/35

You wrote a Social 30-1 WRA I on the Cold War today. Next Thursday (March 17th) you are writing a Social 30-1 Cold War Exam; please see the study guide below.

COLD WAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

On Thursday, March 17th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format. 

SOCIAL 30-1 COLD WAR UNIT FINAL STUDY GUIDE:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts: 

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 10-1

You got the results for your Unit 1 Final Exam back today. I started talking about "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" today. I'll finish off this lecture next week. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay on Monday and Tuesday. You will get 45 minutes on Monday to write, then we'll do a peer editing session. On Tuesday, you will get the entire period to finish off your essay.

Social 30-1

You got the results back for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which you wrote yesterday. I went through the Russian History notes from your Social 30-1 workbook on page 104. You are responsible for reading, highlighting and annotating the notes on Karl Marx (pages 94-96), Vladimir Lenin (pages 97-98), and Joseph Stalin (pages 99-101).

On Thursday, March 17th, you'll be writing your Market and Mixed Economy Test, you can find the study guide below.

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, March 17th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession